Noun: Godwin
| Singular | Godwin |
| Plural | Godwins |
Sample Sentences
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Presumably, because the institute producing the book promotes the idea that evolution isn't science, but an ideology, one that their fellows have pulled a Godwin on and attempted to tie to Nazism. [2008 September 25, John Timmer, “A biologist reviews an evolution textbook from the ID camp”, in ArsTechnica:]
Nouns inflected like Godwin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old English Godwine (“God's friend”). The component -win is from Old English wine (“friend”).
2. The second meaning is named after Michael Wayne Godwin (born 1956), American attorney and author. See: Old English Nouns '
wine'.